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PEP is a multinational retail company based in Cape Town, South Africa. Founded in 1965, PEP operated in 11 countries in Southern Africa with the opening of an outlet in Lobito, Angola in November 2008. [ 2] As of November 2009, the company reported over 1400 stores in operation, with total employment equalling 14,000 employees.
Shoprite Holdings Ltd ( Shoprite) is Africa ’s largest supermarket retailer, operating 3,543 [ 3] stores across the continent (distribution of total operations as at 31 December 2023). The company's headquarters are in Brackenfell in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Shoprite is a public company listed on the Johannesburg Stock ...
Woolworths Holdings Limited is a South African multinational retail company that owns Woolworths, a South African luxury department store chain, and Australian retailer Country Road Group. Woolworths, however, has no association to Australia's Woolworths supermarket chain. The South African Woolworths business consists of luxury goods, being ...
Edcon Ltd was the leading clothing, footwear and textiles (CFT) retailing group in South Africa trading through a range of retail formats. The first Edgars store was opened on 6 September 1929 in Joubert Street, Johannesburg by Sydney Press. [ 6]: 106 It was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1949 and opened its first stores outside ...
Pepkor is a South African-based investment and holding company focused on the discount and value consumer retail and fintech markets. The majority of operations are in South Africa, and operations extend to other African countries and Brazil. It manages retail brands, selling predominantly clothing, footwear, and homeware products, in addition ...
MTN is active in over 20 countries, one-third of the company's revenue comes from Nigeria, where it holds about 35 percent market share. [ 6 ] MTN Group is the primary sponsor of the South Africa national rugby union team and sponsors English football club Manchester United and Zambian Super League.
Pick n Pay Stores Ltd. The Pick n Pay Group is a South African retailer. It operates three brands – Pick n Pay, Boxer and TM Supermarkets. Pick n Pay also operates one of the largest online grocery platforms in sub-Saharan Africa. Raymond Ackerman purchased the first four Pick n Pay stores in Cape Town in 1967 from Jack Goldin. [ 4]
In the United States, discount stores had 42% of the overall retail market share in 1987; in 2010, they had 87%. [7] Many of the major discounters now operate "supercenters", which adds a full-service grocery store to the traditional format.